Lord Byron Quotes

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.

Lord Byron

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• When you have children love is always there in the best form.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Children
  • Love
  • Best

• People don't usually compliment your character.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Character
  • Your

• Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Country
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• You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Dog
  • Step
  • Dies

• True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Friends
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• Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Addition
  • Improved
  • Bacon

• It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Best
  • Banquet

• When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Stock
  • Market
  • Fluctuate

• Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Kind
  • Fighting
  • Equality

• If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Effort

• It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

  

  Epictetus
  • Society
  • Carry
  • Judgements

• I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Figure Out

• If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth. The conditions under which we exist today in the field of politics are indeed threatened by these devastating sand storms.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Politics
  • Storm
  • Desert

• I always say, be human and preach humanity. I started my humanitarian service by strictly observing four principles: truth, simplicity, hard-work and punctuality, and I repeat, be human, preach humanity and adopt humanity.

  

  Abdul Sattar Edhi
  • Humanity
  • Principles
  • Preach

• It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.

  

  Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • Speak
  • Judgment
  • Scene

• Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Vain
  • Preach
  • Old Wine